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bread-corn

bread-corn is the alternative form of breadcorn.

Meaning of breadcorn

Noun

breadcorn (uncountable)

  1. Corn or grain from which bread is made.
    • That which I drive at now is this; That Breadcorn, that brings so considerable increase by Tillage and Husbandry, would scarce be at all without it; for that which grows wildly of it self is worth nothing: but it being so wholesom and strengthning a food, that it should yield so plentiful increase...1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 60

Questions about bread-corn

What is bread-corn the alternative form of?
Bread-corn is the alternative form of breadcorn.

Words near bread-corn in the dictionary

  1. bread-baskets
  2. bread-bearer
  3. bread-bearers
  4. bread-berry
  5. bread-controller
  6. bread-corn
  7. bread-fleigh
  8. bread-head
  9. bread-heads
  10. bread-monger
  11. bread-mongers

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